All Property Week articles in 3 March 2000
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Markets
Tomorrow's world
If you want to attract today's hi-tech tenants, building a business park can be almost as involved as building the Starship Enterprise, says David Lawson
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Markets
Take-up takes off
GVA Grimley's latest review of business parks shows that the sector is enjoying record take-up which is leading to the re-emergence of speculative construction. Michael Haddock of GVA Grimley highlights the report's findings
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Professional
Termination or surrender?
Landlord and tenant This January, the House of Lords stepped in to clarify an important difference between a surrender of a tenancy, and determination of a tenancy by notice to quit – and the effect on sub-tenants in either case.
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Markets
Retail Trading spaces
Spanish fly and Swedes squeeze into all the available store space, but tourists stay away.
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Professional
Scottish lead on rights
Human rights: The property industry in Scotland has already implemented many aspects of the new human rights legislation under the Scotland Act 1998. What lessons has it learned?
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Insight
Job prospects
What will the office of the future look like? In his latest research, Professor James Woodhuysen makes many predictions that developers may find instructive. Liz Hamson askes industry pundits whether they agree with his vision
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Markets
Mayfair/St James's Thoroughly modern Mayfair
Period buildings offer discount rents as occupiers favour open-plan offices.
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News
Nursing home owners set to pull out of troubled sector
More than 1,000 nursing homes up for sale as MEPC, Credit Suisse and Omega look set to quit
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Markets
King of the Hill
American developer Bill Rouse, chief executive of Liberty Property Trust, is learning to mix US business park ideas with the UK's sensitive planning regime at Rouse Kent's Kings Hill scheme. He talks to Angela Jameson
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Markets
Rents: higher, lower or standing still?
Rent increases in the past two years have been astronomical, increasing by up to 30% last year from £583/sq m (£50/sq ft) and going as high as £700/sq m (£65/sq ft). Will this continue? Some feel that the increases are too high and probably unsustainable. Historically, excessive rental growth has ...
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News
Heathrow rents soar
Demand for hi-tech space has triggered a record rent at Heathrow s Airport Gate scheme. Unit 1 at the scheme has been let to IX Europe on a 20-year lease at a staggering £150.70/sq m (£14/sq ft), for use as a co-location facility where telephone and internet calls can be ...
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News
Hyams to halt MEPC
MEPC looks set to be haunted by one of its old foes legendary 1960s property developer Harry Hyams. The former property guru and developer of Centrepoint is tipped to scupper an attempt by MEPC to tie-up the remaining share capital left in circulation after its botched takeover ...
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News
Green lights up NAV but shares struggle
Stephen Vernon's fast-expanding company records net asset value increase of 39%
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Markets
The green light
Twelve years in the planning, and GreenPark is finally taking shape. Liz Hamson reports on how the Pru plans to secure the next stage of pre-lets so that it can really begin to take on Stockley Park
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Markets
High scores in the wars for the floors
GAP contracted to take more than 4,640 sq m (50,000 sq ft) at the former C&A store at 376-384 Oxford Street in July 1999 at a rent rumoured to be between £375-390 Zone A. Next and Superdrug have taken 1,860 sq m and 930 sq m (20,000 sq ft and ...
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Professional
Small firms: reporting on rogue traders
If the compliance officer in a surveying firm becomes the money laundering reporting officer, one of their duties will be to put colleagues on 'rogue watch'.The compliance officer's role is to remind staff of their legal obligations. In most law firms, this encompasses being the MLRO. MLROs hold staff seminars ...
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Markets
Twin towns: the second- and third-most expensive office locations in the world
Midtown Manhattan at £840/sq m (£78/sq ft) and London s West End at £694/sq m (£64.50/sq ft) are the second and third most expensive office locations in the world after Tokyo at £975/sq m (£90.60/sq ft) and unlike Tokyo or the City of London rents are still rising. At first ...
